Summary of a short story
Q. Summarize the story from Mr. Kapasi's point of view. Think carefully as to how the themes apply to the title of the story. What picture does Mr. Kapasi want to preserve in the end? "Interpreter of Maladies," by Jhumpa Lahiri is a story about an Indian family from New Jersey, the Dases, who hire an old-fashioned Indian guide, Mr. Kapasi, to drive them out to the Sun Temple in Konarak. Mr. Kapasi, conversant in nine languages, informs the family that he also works as an interpreter for a doctor. This story touches on themes of love and duty. But the target of the story hinges on wordplay-what does "interpreter" mean? Mrs. Das, desperate for advice, confides in Mr. Kapasi, hoping that, as an "interpreter of maladies," he will offer an explanation for her unhappiness. Mr. Kapasi himself, unaccustomed to such a request, is at a loss as to how he should "interpret" her secret. Finally, "to get to the heart of the matter," he asks a single question: "Is it really pain u feel Mrs. Das, or is it guilt?" (p. 268) And the truth unfolds from there. In the course of the story, Mr. Kapasi notices how modernized the family actually is with the children dressed in "stiff, brightly colored clothing and caps with translucent visors"(p. 255
There is a feeling of impermanence of how certain things change or perhaps why they do so. Das had squeezed hands like an American" (p. Perhaps she wanted him to be the interpreter of her maladies. Das unaware of one of his sons not being his own. Kapasi began to fantasize about Mrs. When he will look back upon it, it will remind him of the transient rendezvous he had with both Mrs. Kapasi knew that his wife had little regard for his career as an interpreter. Kapasi noticed an unspoken distance between the two couple.
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